63 most innovative healthcare companies: Fast Company

 Sixty-three healthcare companies were featured on the 2026 list of the “World’s Most Innovative Companies” published by Fast Company on March 24.

More than four dozen Fast Company editors and writers evaluated businesses across industries and regions, judging companies based on innovation, impact, timeliness and relevance. Overall, 720 companies were recognized. Only the top 50 organizations were ranked; the rest were recognized within their respective industries.

 Each winner was selected after several rounds of judging and conversations in a monthslong process. Learn more about the methodology here.

Three healthcare organizations ranked in the top 50 across all industries: Foster City, Calif.-based Gilead Sciences at No. 11; San Francisco-based Abridge at No. 19; and New York City-based Cresilon at No. 46. 

Only one health system — Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia — was featured on the full list.

Here are the other most innovative healthcare companies, according to Fast Company, ranked in their respective categories, along with where they are based:

Healthcare (healthcare and medical)

1. Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

2. Axmed (Basel, Switzerland)

3. Lantern (Dallas)

4. Overjet (San Mateo, Calif.)

5. myLaurel (New York City)

6. Clarium (New York City)

7. Maven Clinic (New York City)

8. Regard (New York City)

9. Merck & Co. (Rahway, N.J.)

10. Vheda Health (Columbia, Md.)

11. Alice (Sao Paulo)

12. Inspiren (New York City)

13. Theator (Palo Alto, Calif.) 

14. SamaCare (San Francisco)

15. First Stop Health (Chicago)

16. RatingsMD (Atlanta)

17. Lyric (Newtown Square, Pa.)

18. Form Health (Boston)

19. Bunkerhill Health (San Francisco)

20. LucyRx (Bethesda, Md.)

Biotech (healthcare and medical)

2. Exact Sciences (Madison, Wis.)

3. Insilico Medicine (Cambridge, Mass.)

6. Replicate Bioscience (San Diego)

7. Strand Therapeutics (Boston)

10. Orca Bio (Menlo Park, Calif.)

12. Vivodyne (Brisbane, Calif.)

14. Gilgamesh Pharma (New York City)

16. Argo Biopharma (Shanghai)

17. Absci (Vancouver, Wash.)

18. Thermo Fisher Scientific (Waltham, Mass.)

20. Manifold Bio (Boston)

Medicines, therapeutics, and pharmaceuticals (healthcare and medical)

1. Gilead Sciences (Foster City, Calif.)

2. Vertex Pharmaceuticals (Boston)

3. Alnylam Pharmaceuticals (Cambridge, Mass.)

4. Neurotech Pharmaceuticals (Cumberland, R.I.)

5. On Target Laboratories (West Lafayette, Ind.)

6. Sanofi (Paris)

7. Kedrion Biopharma (Castelvecchio Pascoli, Italy)

8. Boehringer Ingelheim (Ingelheim am Rhein, Germany)

9. Nuvation Bio (New York City)

10. Bayer (Leverkusen, Germany)

Medical devices (healthcare and medical)

1. Cresilon (New York City)

2. Element Science (San Francisco)

4. Cionic (San Francisco)

5. Insightec (Tirat Carmel, Israel)

6. Uresta (Moncton, Canada)

7. Medtronic (Minneapolis)

9. Anumana (Cambridge, Mass.)

10. RenovoRx (Mountain View, Calif.)

201-999 employees (healthcare and medical)

2. Hello Heart (Menlo Park, Calif.)

5. Rad AI (San Francisco)

Fewer than 50 employees (healthcare and medical)

6. EpiBone (New York City)

10. Acorn Biolabs (Toronto)

Artificial intelligence (healthcare and medical)

3. Abridge (San Francisco)

Data science (healthcare and medical)

2. Basil Systems (Boston)

Asia-Pacific (healthcare and medical)

7. Elehear (Minneapolis)

Human resources (healthcare and medical)

8. Laudio (Boston)

North America (healthcare and medical)

14. OnMed (White Plains, N.Y.)

Education (healthcare and medical)

5. Patient Ready (Winston-Salem, N.C.)

Workplace (healthcare and medical)

10. Wellthy (New York City)

Wellness and personal care (healthcare and medical)

6. Willow Innovations (Mountain View, Calif.)

Augmented and virtual reality (healthcare and medical)

3. XRHealth (Needham, Mass.)

Europe, Middle East, and Africa (healthcare and medical)

8. Ovasave 

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